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World’s largest pension fund is promoting an ESG future

GPIF want to make the market more sustainable not beat it

On Tuesday August 20th Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of GPIF (Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund) Hiro Mizuno will give a keynote presentation with performance fees and sustainable investing being the main two talking points.

GPIF is the world’s largest pension fund with over 1.5 trillion in total assets.

GPIF’s main driver in recent years has been against “Shortism”. GPIF want to focus on building a more sustainable market rather than focusing on beating it.

ESG investing

The ESG ethos is so strong that a Harvard Business School case study featured GPIF earlier in the year.

Their main principle asks investment managers to integrate ESG and to commit to the UN supported Principles for Responsible Investment or RPI that the fund signed in 2015. GPIF expect their asset managers to;